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Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at. Variation 6: Put these patterns on the kick or the snare.Įxercise for you to complete on your own.Īll materials are © 2010 Shane Kershaw aka Bandcoach.Ĭreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License. Variation 5: Somewhere in between for the Hi-Hats Variation 4: More Hi-hats Sixteenths on the Hi-Hats Simple snare drum variations: Two 8th notes on the second beatįour 8th notes, two on beat two, two on beat four Now we cut the kick drum back to two beats, 1 and 3 The main variation is to play 8th notes on the hi-hats. The straightforward rock, 4-on-the-floor pattern Most of the new patterns simply divide the beat into smaller note values using 8ths and 16ths. Now we are going to start with the basic patterns and add some new ones. So, if you want to have more than four parts of the kit playing at the same time we begin to move into octopus territory in the writing and playing.
Snare Drum: upper mid range with lots of noise in the initial hit.Bass Drum: in the bottom end of the frequency range, but sometimes with a prominent click from the beater hitting the skin.Why not have more? No reason we can’t.īefore writing for multiple drums we might take a moment to consider the ranges in which each of the instruments in the kit traditionally cover.
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Then any possible combination of any two beats or divisions of the beat within the bar.Īt this point, we have not used any duration values smaller than a quarter note even when we shift within the divisions of the beat, each note is considered to last its full value, particularly if the pattern were to repeat itself. We then come to two beat patterns, on the first beat and third beat: This can be then moved to any other beat in the bar or any division of the beat: The simplest beat that we can possibly make is to play a note on the first beat of the bar: You are playing four 16th notes on each drum. It’s a classic drum fill with running 16th notes beginning on the snare drum and then moving around the kit starting from the high rack tom to the floor tom. Later on, I will look at other time signatures to see how we can adapt our basic patterns to them. Beginner Drum Fill 2: Here is possibly the most popular choice of all the beginner drum fills around. We will also only split our beat into 16th notes.
Our initial patterns will also be only in 4/4.
Just about every popular music style is currently played in 4/4 time.